The bar chart illustrates the proportion of Australian males and females across various age groups who engaged in regular physical activity in 2010.
Overall, women generally exhibited higher participation rates than men in most age cohorts, with the most notable gap observed in the 45-54 age bracket. Conversely, men showed a clear advantage only among the youngest age group.
In the 15-24 age bracket, men recorded the highest activity rate among all male age groups, at 52.8%, surpassing women by approximately 5 percentage points, whose figure stood at 47.7%. However, from age 25 onwards, the pattern shifted, with women consistently outperforming men. For instance, among those aged 25-34, female participation reached 48.9%, whereas male participation dropped to 42.2%.
The gender disparity widened further in the middle-aged cohorts, peaking in the 45-54 category, where 53.3% of women exercised regularly compared to 43.1% of men, a gap of over 10 percentage points. Although the difference narrowed slightly in the 55-64 group (53.0% for females versus 45.1% for males), it remained substantial. Only in the 65-and-over bracket did the rates converge, with women at 47.1% and men at 46.7%, nearly equal.